Regions of risk : a geographical introduction to disasters /
Regions at Risk provides an introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public. The book is split into two parts, the first of which gives an overview of the field of risk and disaster i...
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Harlow :
Longman,
1997.
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| Series: | Themes in resource management.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Danger and modernity
- pt. 1. Approaches to risk and disaster. Ch. 1. Risk and damaging events. Ch. 2. The 'geographicalness' of disaster. Ch. 3. Natural hazards. Ch. 4. Technological hazards. Ch. 5. Social hazards: violence and the disasters of war. Ch. 6. Vulnerability perspectives: the human ecology of endangerment. Ch. 7. Active perspectives: responses to disaster and adjustments to risk
- pt. 2. Communities at risk, places of disaster. Ch. 8. 'Unnatural' disasters: the case of earthquake hazards. Ch. 9. Contexts of risk: mountain land hazards and vulnerabilities. Ch. 10. Risk in the city. Ch. 11. Place annihilation: air war and the vulnerability of cities. Ch. 12. The Holocaust: genocide and geographical calamity
- Concluding remarks: The perspective of ideas.